Children Social Worker - Senior Practiitoner

Corus Consultancy; Bexleyheath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A social services provider in the UK is seeking a Qualified Social Worker to manage a diverse caseload of children in need. The role involves conducting assessments, building relationships with families, and ensuring the safety and well-being of children. Ideal candidates should have strong assessment and communication skills, and a registered social work qualification.

Qualifications

• Proficient ability to communicate in English.
• Experience working with children and families within statutory social care.
• IT-literate with accurate recording and report-writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse caseload of children in need.
• Carry out timely assessments and create outcome-focused plans.
• Build strong relationships with children and families.

Skills

Strong assessment skills

Planning skills

Safeguarding skills

Effective communication

Risk management

Organizational skills

Education

Qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse caseload of children in need, on child protection plans or in care.
• Carry out timely assessments and create clear, outcome-focused plans.
• Build strong relationships with children and families, ensuring their voices shape decisions.
• Lead and contribute to core groups, reviews, conferences and court proceedings.
• Work closely with partner agencies to coordinate effective support and interventions.
• Keep accurate, up-to-date case records and provide high-quality reports.
• Champion safe, nurturing and permanent solutions for children.

To build positive, supportive, and respectful relationships with families in order to help support children in need of help or protection.

Where possible, you will help support families to raise their children safely within their family network by supporting and augmenting their support network. Where this is not possible, alternate plans will need to be explored and implemented to help ensure children grow up in safe, nurturing, and happy homes that achieve long term permanence. This will require working in a supported practice environment that respectfully challenges and enables you to use your professional judgement, autonomy, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Required: Qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration

• You will have a proficient ability to communicate in English and be able to influence others in an effort to help coordinate services and supports in the best way possible to keep children as safe and well cared for as possible.
• Experience working with children and families within statutory social care
• Strong assessment, planning and safeguarding skills
• Confident in managing risk and making sound, timely decisions
• Skilled communicator, able to build trust and influence partners
• Resilient, organised and able to manage a busy, varied caseload
• IT-literate, with accurate recording and report-writing skills